I formalized the job hunt
on my website just in time to receive a fairly interesting
offer from a neat startup I've been talking to. Doh!
I'd still rather go to an open source related job, rather
than one which will merely use free software to build things
with or from, but really this offer is from an exceptionally
well-pedigreed company, and it is an interesting project and
good people, so I just can't refuse. We'll see how it turns
out.

Speaking of turning, I'd typed the wrong class of SKUs
into my database, so the experimental project in making my
website pay for itself ran aground. I've corrected this and
we'll start a new trial period. (ObPlug: if
anyone wants to buy a printer, buy one of my suggested
printers).

Yesterday I had a moderately interesting idea for the
implementation
of a distributed search system. The original intent was to
replace dejanews, which has dropped the proverbial ball as
de facto keeper of the world's archives, but as it turns out
my envisioned implementation has wider applicability than
that: in fact it could help correct the "silo"
characteristic
of web discussion forums and the non-spiderable character of
many database-driven websites. So forget the homemade Tivo;
I've reserved a week between
jobs to implement a proof of concept of this search system.